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Originally Posted by janetvj
A sales tax is a transaction tax. The transaction is being taxed, not the item. So each time an item is sold that creates a separate transaction, and therefore a separate tax.
As GregW suggests, if you don't like the law, work to change it.
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A car, for example, has a VIN number. If that VIN # has shown in the computer at the DMV as being registered prior, then there should be no more tax. It should recognize it as a repeat transaction and void out any further tax.
A home is the same way, it has an address, a deed, and a date of build. If the first buyer already paid his/hers heap of tax, then the next buyer should be exempt, it should not keep being paid over and over and over again. That's insane, but it's somehow legal.
Those are the 2 major things I can think of that could very easily be changed...but Mitch don't listen, so that kinda puts people in that "illegal" spot of writing in a false price. Can you blame them? State and Feds waste alot of money, you know it and I know it, so I can't blame a guy who is already underpaid and struggling to pay the bills for falsifying a bill of sale. Seems like it's a battle that's never won.